Stacheldraht und Haferschleim: ENOs Forza del destino

Von Mark Pullinger, 10 November 2015

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“die Kirche bietet keinen Trost, nur Ketten und Dornenkronen aus Stacheldraht”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: The London Coliseum, London, am 9 November 2015

Verdi, La forza del destino (Die Macht des Schicksals)

English National Opera

Mark Wigglesworth, Musikalische Leitung

Calixto Bieito, Regie

Rebecca Ringst, Bühnenbild

Ingo Krügler, Kostüme

Tamara Wilson, Leonora

Rinat Shaham, Preziosilla

Gwyn Hughes Jones, Don Alvaro

Anthony Michaels-Moore, Don Carlo

James Creswell, Padre Guardiano

Clare Presland, Curra

Adrian Dwyer, Trabuco

Andrew Shore, Fra Melitone

Nicholas Folwell, Alcade

Robert Winslade Anderson, Marquis of Calatrava

English National Opera Orchestra

English National Opera Chorus

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

Stacheldraht und Haferschleim: schwacher Trost in Forza del destino der ENO